One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Plant no other tree before the vine.
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.